“A pro-Kremlin lawmaker and former Olympic gold medallist faced a racism row Saturday after she posted a photo-collage of President Barack Obama juxtaposed with a banana on Twitter. Irina Rodnina posted on Twitter a photomontage that purports to show Obama and his wife gazing at a hand in the foreground holding up a banana. After the post sparked a storm of disgust on Saturday, Rodnina deleted the message, but insisted she believed she had done nothing wrong. ‘Freedom of speech is freedom of speech! Deal with your hangups yourself,’ she wrote defiantly on Twitter, saying the post had boosted her rating.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/14/russia-mp-charged-with-racism-over-obama-banana-image/
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